Hexadecaphasic Sleep

The last 18 hours have been rather tiring but perfectly bearable overall. Alertness has ranged between fully awake and alert, to, at one point, falling asleep while talking. (sorry!). these fluctuations in alertness, I’m assuming have everything to do with the quality of stimulation at the time: almost always felt fully alert when talking to someone.

Last nap (1830) was fascinating. “Life got in the way”, so I skipped naps 1350,1520,1700. So to compensate I just overslept (accidently) for 1 minute, but woke up incredibly refreshed. Well below “well rested”, it was the kind of feeling that you get when youve just done a lot of exercise or something, go to bed, wake up the next morning and think “Oh fuck is it morning already?”: in pain but feeling like you will actually be able to get through the day. However short, the 5 min nap seemed to do a lot.

The naps are getting longer, too. Clock always says 4 minutes but they’re starting to feel like 10-60 minutes now. I do hope this is not a temporary thing, it’s a wonderful feeling. First time I’ve enjoyed sleeping in ages.

Now a huge plus of this pattern (not that it’s yet been demonstrated to work at all): yes, you have to go to bed 16-20 times a day, but the naps are really unobtrusive. My dad just asked me “So are you going to have a nap?” or something to that effect, to which I replied: “I just did”. The point being they can fit in the tiniest of gaps in the day.